What Gear did you Blow Up last month

[stevep]

Basically What Gear Crashed , Fried , Smoked , or Broke this month.............

Ok Ill start.........

It must have been my turn to smoke a few pieces

1/2 hour before a Mix session i had an Amp for the horns on the Bigs fry... ..300$

No problem..... Ill just replace it with the backup , right ?

Well it was toast also but on the other channel........ 800$

Then the Pinch roller for my Studer Needed to be replaced.......... 400$

And the PSU for one of my killer Di boxes had to be fixed...... 10 cents


No problem, its all fixed now but its no fun trying to put out fires during a session (not real fires) yet.................

[Marshman]

I had one of the PS's for my console pop last month. Luckily I had a spare and I am still rebuilding the one that went south. I have $100 in the spare and about $10 in parts for rebuilding the original one (so far, more on order).

I think the last thing before this was another power supply for the same console while I was setting it up about 4 years ago (operator error that time!)

I have been pretty lucky in the letting the smoke out dept.

mm

[retropete]

My Randall RM4 took a swan dive from on top my speaker cabinet. No one was around, it's a total mystery how it happened. I can't wait to get it back from the shop -- I got a Mr. Scary module delivered yesterday...

[mrface2112]

i fried my Apogee MiniMe hooking up a homebrew battery unit to it (for field use since it's not bus powerable). apparently i had the polarity switched. oops.

turned it on, heard a crackle/sizzle and immediately unplugged it. too late, the damage was done--smelled the smell of components taking one for the team and opening it up and seeing melted plastic confirmed it was indeed dead.

a couple weeks and $140 later, it's good as new. but that was $140 that I could've spent on the "proper" (read: approved) battery solution from Sonic Sense. i'm just glad it wasn't completely, unrecoverably dead.

i have nothing but GREAT things to say about the Apogee tech support folks, though--they really rock. great service from those folks. they gave it a complete once-over and recalibrated it back to factory settings while they had it.


cheers,
wade

[retropete]

Yeah the Apogee folks are really great -- patient and thorough.

They got me set up with my AD-16x and DA-16x when I was about ready to throw in the towel. Top notch.

[kurtr2]

blew up my hafler p3000
two years ago blew up my equitech 1.5
american equipment in europe. something went wrong...
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[lowswing]

not me, but my assistant keep on blewing transistors on any piece of gear he comes around, be it the console, amps etc

[ajcamlet]

truth passive monitors--two woofers
Silvertone 1482.

[uylink]

last nite i just play maximum volume on my krk6000
it happened cause error with my RME hdsp mixer setting
normally i set monitoring level by RME software
with error they push all fader to max
and my krk was play in very very loud as it seem to be damage
for 1-2 seconds until i stop it
now i'm very nervous about thier coil and tweeter..............

do anyone know how to check thier voice coil?
i don't want them crash........i love them

[dkatz42]

Originally Posted by mrface2112

i fried my Apogee MiniMe hooking up a homebrew battery unit to it (for field use since it's not bus powerable). apparently i had the polarity switched. oops.

Kind of lame that it doesn't have protection diodes on the PS inputs, but if it was never meant to have cobbled-up supplies hooked to it, I suppose it's not that surprising. Still, 10 cents worth of parts would have saved you the trouble...

[3rd world order]

blew 5 caps of a chandler power supply... oops

[Confusionator]

Head gasket on my Volvo in that wicked heat spell. Does that count?

[SK1]

I have a fostex 6501b powered speaker that started making more hiss and is getting super hot !!

They're only secondary monitors. So for now .... I'm using just one in mono.

Any ideas what it could be ????

[stevep]

Originally Posted by lowswing

not me, but my assistant keep on blewing transistors on any piece of gear he comes around, be it the console, amps etc

Crazy...........


give him an aluminum foil suit stike





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[adamcal]

I have blownup the shitty amp that is in my Event 20/20/15 sub, for the fourth time now.

I have had enough of opening and replacing the amp chips, so I have soldered a lead after the preamp board (all the filtering and 5.1 stuff) and taken the signal out to an external Yamaha P2200, then back in to the speaker.

Much better!!!

[Bob Ross]

In July I blew up a Mac G3 that I use for all my non-audio related stuff: word processing, graphics, music notation, email & internet, etc. Semi-catastrophic hard disc failure. Basically the OS on the internal drive got so corrupted that the computer refused to boot, *even* from an external HD or CD-ROM (!?!?!)

One month & several hundred dollars in data recovery fees later (plus $50 for a new HD), it's back up and running. But man, with all the concern about backing up audio files, I somehow must have skipped school the day they told us about backing up your critical day-to-day files...like email address books, or phonebook databases. Even after the data recovery, finding *where* that info was buried seemed a lot harder than it should on a Macintosh. For a while there I thought I was totally screwed.

[superburtm]

Broke my big muff during overdubs $49.00 basically the worlds best disposable stomp box.

[cgarges]

What a great thread!

Last month, I blew up an NS10 tweeter and RCA BK5A. I also noticed a drop in output from one of my AT4051s. (They're now charging for repairs--bummer.)

I've got so much stuff in the shop now, it's pathetic.

Chris Garges
Charlotte, NC

[Jim Williams]

I managed to smoke a couple of expensive TI THS opamp modules in the console. It was on the bench and my eyes failed me as they were inserted backwards. Of course, a couple of fuse resistors went down with them. They do sound quite good when they work.

Jim Williams
Audio Upgrades

[gerryg]

After over 20 years of trouble free use, my old McIntosh M250 died....

Next week I dropped my Audix CX-111 on a concrete floor...

gerry griffin
The Temple of Tuneage

[axeman]

I was gonna hook up a Jupiter 8 to print some midi tracks. I set up the Jupiter, got a power cable and turned it on: Nothing, just a small blink on the display. The studio owner comes in and looks at the synth, then at me and says:

"You know that´s a 110v-synth, not 220v, right?". Nope, I didn´t...

It was a sweaty half hour until it was confirmed it was just a blown fuse.

[Jens Siefert]

I blew the Input of our API 7600 twice in 4 month..
and crashed my VW GolfIII last month...

[stevep]

Originally Posted by axeman

I was gonna hook up a Jupiter 8 to print some midi tracks. I set up the Jupiter, got a power cable and turned it on: Nothing, just a small blink on the display. The studio owner comes in and looks at the synth, then at me and says:

"You know that´s a 110v-synth, not 220v, right?". Nope, I didn´t...

It was a sweaty half hour until it was confirmed it was just a blown fuse.

Ouch !




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[stevep]

I dont know if this counts, but half way through a session today the drummers Hi Hat fell apart .....

Some Duct tape and Zip ties and we were back rolling tape




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[mrface2112]

Originally Posted by dkatz42

Kind of lame that it doesn't have protection diodes on the PS inputs, but if it was never meant to have cobbled-up supplies hooked to it, I suppose it's not that surprising. Still, 10 cents worth of parts would have saved you the trouble...

COMPLETELY lame. I'm in total agreement there. and after i'd fried it, it surprised me that there wasn't some sort of protection in place b/c i expected there to be. but looking at the circuit board, one DOES have to ask where they'd put it, that thing is FULL.

as for the cobbled powersupplies......if you're Apogee, you have to expect that people are going to do that. the minime has USB but isn't bus powerable. people using the thing in the field are going to need power from somewhere.....

there's an "approved" one that Sonic Sense sells with an ecocharge battery and whatnot, but it's $150 or so. You can construct something very similar for about $40......you just need to make sure your polarity's right.

the humor of it all is that after i'd described the problem, the FIRST words the tech at Apogee asked were "did you have it hooked up to a battery?". apparently this is a rather common happening. given than, you'd expect them to put some protection in place on the next "version".


cheers,
wade

[Bassmec]

Originally Posted by stevep

Basically What Gear Crashed , Fried , Smoked , or Broke this month.............

Ok Ill start.........

It must have been my turn to smoke a few pieces

1/2 hour before a Mix session i had an Amp for the horns on the Bigs fry... ..300$

No problem..... Ill just replace it with the backup , right ?

Well it was toast also but on the other channel........ 800$

Then the Pinch roller for my Studer Needed to be replaced.......... 400$

And the PSU for one of my killer Di boxes had to be fixed...... 10 cents


No problem, its all fixed now but its no fun trying to put out fires during a session (not real fires) yet.................

I use Klipsch Heresy 11 stacked on my old BBC transmission line monitors on near field the right hand tweeter in the Klipsch failed and its now two weeks later and I find that the replacement diaphragms from Klipsch are 3db down on the original phenolic ones and the only way to get back to what I am used to is to order from a bloke off ebay who has the original new old stock T76 tweets.
Faffing not what I call service they only lasted since 1993 the BBC's have coles super and Kef tweets and are probably 1975 still going great and none of your ferrofliuid bollocks. Nostalga's not what it used to be. Active? not so much at my age anymore.
Regards.•:*¨¨*:•. ¸¸.•´¯`•.Mark Fairfax-Harwood, Engineer Springvale Studios
http://www.springvalestudios.com

[seaneldon]

we blew up two computers about two months ago. within 5 minutes of one another.

fixing/building new one was the most stressful 48 hours of my entire life. computer skeletons EVERYWHERE.

i broke a bunch of guitar pedals this month.

i sold a lot of equipment recently. i guess that's better financially than blowing it all up.

[Jim Williams]

Question: How many broken pieces did you sell on Ebay and how many broken pieces did you buy on Ebay?

Jim Williams
Audio Upgrades

[seaneldon]

jim: zero, and zero. i've had nothing but awesome experiences on ebay. i think i'm the minority here, though.

[TinderArts]

Two days ago the Apogee DA16x died. Yesterday we received a replacement. Things happen and Apogee was quick and extremely helpful!